Closing Note: Market remains low
Wednesday, July 8, 2009 4:00 pmMassive selling strain in infrastructure, metal, telecom, realty, banking, oil & gas discovery dropped the NSE and the BSE below the mental standards of 4100 and 14000 in Wednesday’s trade. Feeble cues from the United States and Asian markets and dip in commodities rates stressed on the markets.
The NSE disrupted the 4100 level in the early hours of trade that was the first time since 18th May. It tried its level best to rise over the same mark all through the session except during 1-2:30 pm.
The 30-share Sensex has seen an intraday down of 13,701.76, ahead of ending the day at 13,769.15, low with 401.30 points. The 50-share Nifty dropped 123.25 points to remain at 4078.90 after reaching a day’s down of 4061.10. The NSE July futures closed with and NSE 4200 put dropped nearly 11lakh shares in OI.
The Sensex Mid Index declined 181.50 points and Small Index dipped 206.92 points.
Decline in US markets on grim fiscal data and more than 2% dip in Nikkei in the wake of 3% loss in Japanese machinery contracts in May opposed to average of 2% rise, drove this sell-off in initial trade for our markets. The market breadth supported losses; around 634 shares rushed, whereas 2085 shares dropped. Almost 437 shares were unaffected.
